Club Cultures: Boundaries, Identities and Otherness: 48 (Routledge Advances in Sociology) - Hardcover

Rief, Silvia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415958539 ISBN 13: 9780415958530

Publisher: Routledge, 2009

Synopsis

This book explores contemporary club and dance cultures as a manifestation of aesthetic and prosthetic forms of life. Rief addresses the questions of how practices of clubbing help cultivate particular forms of reflexivity and modes of experience, and how these shape new devices for reconfiguring the boundaries around youth cultural and other social identities. She contributes empirical analyses of how such forms of experience are mediated by the particular structures of night-clubbing economies, the organizational regulation and the local organization of experience in club spaces, the media discourses and imageries, the technologies intervening into the sense system of the body (e.g. music, visuals, drugs) and the academic discourses on dance culture. Although the book draws from local club scenes in London and elsewhere in the UK, it also reflects on similarities and differences between nightclubbing cultures across geographical contexts.

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About the Author

Silvia Rief is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Innsbruck.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415958539
• ISBN 13: 9780415958530
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 250